Projects in genres: Scottish

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A remote Scottish boarding school is home to Reg, a lonely and yearning teenage girl. The handsome chainsaw-wielding tree surgeon, and the sinister and unorthodox self-defence instructor, are the only men in this world. When Reg is required to fight in the woods, she knows what she must do.

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Jamie adores his older brother Donald but begins to doubt his tales of their absent father. A short film exploring two brothers growing up in Scotland one summertime.

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Josh, a man with learning difficulties, is ignored and mocked in his home town until he meets a girl called Sarah, during an unpleasant attack on him. She befriends him and then uses him to do a task for her that shocks a small village.
The story twists and turns over flashbacks and a police investigation until the shocking finale.

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Recorded every day for a year at exactly the same time, in the same place Stay the Same is an experimental documentary about our relationship with time and the desire to capture experience.

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A mysterious woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. Events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.

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A visually impaired photographer, Anne, is on the quest to set up a photographic exhibition. The eyesight's deterioration of a visually impaired photographer is a lifetime challenge but search for the necessary funding to organize exhibition becomes huge issue at this time. Would passion to art help overcome health limitations?

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A story of a woman's struggle to find her biological parents and the decision when she finally has all the information required to take that next step.

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In a small Scottish town in 1974, factory workers refuse to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile. Four years pass before the engines mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night.

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When Neil Platt is diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease at the age of 33, he makes the unusual decision to document his final months, not just in a blog (which he painstakingly dictates via frustratingly inaccurate speech recognition software) but by inviting a film crew into the home he shares with his tireless wife Louise and toddler son Oscar. The result is a heartbreaking, funny and tender portrayal of incredible fortitude and love (EIFF).

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Joseph is terminally ill. He spends his days sitting in front of the television, watching as each show comes and goes until one morning something catches his eye. Inspired, Joseph departs from his daily routine to create something he hopes to pass on to his family.

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Commissioned by LUX and Collective Gallery.

'Fib' is the Pictish name for the contemporary Scottish region known as The Kingdom of 'Fife'. It also means a trivial or white lie.

Filmed at locations in Fife, the film focuses on two census takers and considers the resulting information and actions as ‘factish’.

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When Madge Elliot complained about the announced closure of her local train station in Hawick, her mother told her to do something about it, and that’s just what she did. It’s Quicker By Hearse The Tale of the Petitioning Housewife, the Protesting Schoolboy and the Campaign Trail Student tells the story of Elliot who, together with her 11-year-old son Kim, Harry Brown the piper and Edinburgh University Railway Society president Bruce McCartney, marched to Downing Street to deliver a petition of 11,768 signatures on 18 December 1968. When final closure was penciled for January 7 1969, Madge and her campaign group continued their protest by posting a coffin on the last train to leave Hawick station and travel to London. The coffin was emblazoned with the words ‘Waverley Line – born 1848 killed 1969’ and was addressed to the then Minister of Transport Richard Marsh.

This work investigates how the national changes recommended in the infamous Beeching report, titled The Reshaping of British Railways, impacted Elliot and her local community. Like Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel Waverley (the railway lines namesake), Elliot’s grassroots campaign raised questions of the need for social progress that does not reject the traditions of the past.